Upstart

Senior Software Engineer, Core Pricing

Upstart

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Ohio

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Salary

💰 $163,600 - $226,400 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKotlinMicroservicesOpen SourcePython

About the role

  • Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance services that enable real-time pricing decisions across multiple products
  • Collaborate with data scientists and product managers to translate business goals into robust technical solutions
  • Drive architectural improvements in the pricing platform to support rapid growth, new products, and evolving modeling needs
  • Mentor and coach engineers across the team, elevating best practices in system design, testing, and operational excellence
  • Ensure the quality and reliability of pricing engines through comprehensive testing, code reviews, and production monitoring
  • Champion improvements in developer experience, automation, and observability to increase team velocity and platform resilience

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience building scalable public or consumer-facing products
  • High level of proficiency coding in production with Python, Kotlin, Go, or languages with similar syntax
  • Proven ability to independently own and deliver complex, multi-month engineering projects in fast-paced environments
  • Experience designing and building scalable APIs and microservices in a cloud-based environment (AWS or GCP)
  • Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on scalability, performance, and system reliability
  • Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Demonstrated experience mentoring and coaching engineers, influencing technical direction, and raising the bar for the team
  • Exhibits a bias for action and comfort navigating ambiguity while driving towards impactful outcomes
  • Preferred: Background in finance / fintech, financial mathematics, statistics, or machine learning
  • Preferred: Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud-native development, and advanced CI/CD pipelines (infrastructure-as-code focus)
  • Preferred: Recognized as a subject matter expert or technical owner for a critical domain
  • Preferred: Active contributor to the tech community through open source, technical talks, or mentorship
  • Time zone: Team operates across all U.S. time zones
  • Travel: Regular on-site collaboration sessions 3 days per quarter (travel covered by Upstart)